Combined garment.



M. TARTIKOFP. COMBINED GARMENT. APPLIULTION FILED MAY 29, 1908.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908;.

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M. TARTIKOFF. COMBINED GARMBN'IfL I APPLIOATION PILL 1D MAY 29, 1908.

Patented Nov. 24,1908.

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MORRIS TARTIKOFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Nov. 24, 1908.

Application filed. May 29, 1908. Serial No. 435,609.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, MoRRIsTAn'rIKoFF, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Combined Garment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement in combined garments, relating more particularly to childrens suits with which a shield or front piece is worn, such, for example, as a sailor suit.

The invention has for its purpose a shield so constructed and secured that it cannot ride up in or work out of theblouse, and will operate to support the pants or other lower garment. a

The invention further contemplates the re lieving of the button and buttonholes, forming the connection between the shield and pants, of undue strain tending to tearthe buttonholes out and break the buttons oif.

To this end the invention in a general mentary waistband being provided with buttons on opposite portions for detachably connecting them together and to a pair of pants or other similarly worn garments, with elastic members connected to the shanks of the buttons, holding them in place and aifording a yielding connection between the pants and the shield.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a garment embodying my invention, with the coat and blouse removed; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same substantially on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the upper and lower members of the garment, looking toward the front; Fig. 4: is a similar section looking toward the rear; Fig. 5 is a sectional plan substantially on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a perspective view illustrating the complete suit; and Fig. 7 is a sectional view on the line 7-.7 of Fig. 6, through the rear upper portionof the shield and coat, showing the manner in which they are attached.

The lower member or garment of the complete suit in the embodiment of my invenconsist of a shield 12 which extends over the if front and back of thebody and is cut away at the sides, leaving it sleeveless. The front portion of this garment is of substantially uniform width, and the rear portion thereof decreases in width as its lower end is approached, and is vertically divided through the neck opening, the two portions being detahably connected by buttons 13. The tail of the front portion of the shield or waist passes partly on the inside of a supplementary waistband 1 1, to which it is detachably connected at opposite sides by buttons 15, the latter having eyelet shanks through which passes an elastic cord 16,

which is preferably tied at one end and permanently secured at the other, as illustrated in Fig. 3, after it is applied. The

tail of the rear portion of the waist or shield passes to the outside of the supplementary waistband and is detachably connected therewith by a single button, the shank of which passes through button-holes in both of its divided portions. This button, in connection with several others of like construction passing though the supplementary waist-band, is held in place by an elastic cord 16 tied in the same manner as the cord 16. The pants are buttoned to the buttons carried on the supplementary waistband, the same as if arranged on an ordinary waist. The tail of the shield, both front and back, I have shown constructed with a plurality of sets of buttonholes or openings for the reception of the shanks of the buttons 15, which adapts the garment to fit wearers of different height. With the shield thus connected to the supplementary waistband, it may be readily unbuttoned, and by separating its two divided portions in the back, it is easily applied and removed from the body. The elastic cords 16 and 16 obviously yield when the wearer of the garment is stooping or bending, and thus relieves the buttons and buttonholes of undue strain, avoiding the tearing out of these holes and the breaking oif of the buttons. When the shield is to be washed, one end of each of these cords is untied, which permits the removal of the buttons. The shape of the rear portion of the shield is such as to uniformly distribute the strain to the shoulders instead of the neck, and in effect operating the same as an ordinary pair of suspenders.

In Fig. 6, I have shown the complete suit after the coat or blouse 17 is applied, from which it will be observed that it presents, to all outward appearances, the same construc tion as an ordinary sailor suit for children, and has the shield positively anchored therein, whereby it is impossible for this device to slip about or work out of the blouse, as frequently happens with the conventional shield. The coat or blouse is preferably provided with an inner buttonhole at the back of the neck for its attachment on the upper button 13 of the shield, as shown in Fi 7 flaving thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination of a lower garment having an inner waistband provided with buttonholes, a supplementary waistband, a shield having the front thereof arranged on the inside of the supplementary band and the rear portion thereof extending to the outside of the band, buttons having shanks extending through the auxiliary band and shield, detachably connecting them together, and elastic means connected to the shanks of the buttons.

2. The combination of a shield, a lower garment, an auxiliary waistband passing around the outside of the front of the shield and on the inside of the rear of the shield,

for attaching it to the rear portion of the shield and to the lower garment.

The combination of a shield having portions adapted to extend over the front and rear of the body and having buttons on one of said portions, a waistband having buttons on the opposite portion adapted to detachably connect the adjacent portion of the shield and be detachably connected at the opposite side by the first mentioned buttons, and elastic means attached to said buttons to hold them in place.

'-l. A childs suit comprising a lower garment, a blouse, and. a shield covering the opening at the throat of the blouse and extended downwardly at both the front and rear and detachably connected to and supporting the lower garment.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MORRIS TARTIKOFF. Vitnesses W. W. HoLr, JOHN P. DAVIS. 

